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Is there a common PM certification which will be acceptable inover the world as you said PMP is for US clients and Prince2 is UK and Europe, so you think it’s a drawback for PM professionals and also it is costly and cumbersome to achieve these certifications

Ashish Dhoke

Written Dec 17, 2014

I do agree with you however that is how it is, the PMP certificate is quite popular across the American region and also it’s quite popular in Middle East and in India, it’s been around many years in India as well and lot of employers are asking for it but when you work in Europe or when you work in Australia most employers will look for Prince2 but it is not they talk the same thing and competing.A PMP basically certification is more about building skills of a project manger so as a project manager what things you should know how you do estimation how do you do contracting how do you do resource management how do you do scheduling how do you do scope management it talks about for a project manger what are the essential skills and it also expects that you should have relevant experience of working on projects and now you are basically sharpening your skills and getting the depth of knowledge.It only talks about project manager and it doesn’t talk about other people, it doesn’t talk about template and it doesn’t talk about step by step process because it is a guidance and not a method on the other hand Prince2 talks about project manager talks about the sponsor talks about the business users talks about the vendors talks about the team leads so it actually brings about the team that is required to manage the project, it gives you a step by step process to basically know what happens next who does it and also gives you templates so if suppose steps to build a business case it also gives you a template that says this is a template for business case make it this so you have the methodology which actually companies can use off the shelf, so what’s the difference then.Prince2 gives you methods but doesn’t give you techniques you have to figure out your techniques that suits your project. PMP gives you techniques but doesn’t give you method and templates when you basically bring both together integrate you get something which is basically widely acceptable but the other question that you said is, is there something which is widely acceptable ITIL is widely acceptable but that is not for project management that is for service management and agile is also widely acceptable in software development projects.You can look for those certificates they are quite widely acceptable but in India a Prince2 or a PMP will be acceptable to most employers or maybe PMP is more acceptable to most buyers.